About the Book: Northwind
This stunning novel from the survival story master, set along a rugged
coastline centuries ago, does for the ocean what Hatchet does for the woods, as
it relates the story of a young persons battle to stay alive against the odds,
where the high seas meet a coastal wilderness.
When a deadly plague reaches the small fish camp where he lives, an orphan
named Leif is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe. He flees northward,
following a wild, fjord-riven shore, navigating from one danger to the next,
unsure of his destination. But the deeper into